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The Ultimate Engineer
- The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low
- By: Richard Jurek, Gerald D. Griffin - foreword
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Described as the "ultimate engineer" during his career at NASA, George M. Low was a visionary architect and leader from the agency's inception in 1958 to his retirement in 1976. As chief of manned spaceflight at NASA, Low was instrumental in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. Low's pioneering work paved the way for President Kennedy's decision to make a lunar landing NASA's primary goal in the 1960s.
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A Little Mundane
- By Neil on 19-03-24
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The Ultimate Engineer
- The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 12-05-20
- Language: English
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An American Odyssey
- By: Si D. Pham, SI PHAM
- Narrated by: Patrick Kelly Shannon
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Born in 1968 during the chaos of the Tet Offensive, he entered the world fighting for his life. Fragile and uncertain, his earliest days were shaped by war, separation, and the quiet strength of a grandmother who became his refuge. As Saigon fell in 1975, his family escaped on one of the last helicopters out of Vietnam leaving behind not only their homeland, but a younger brother and a piece of their hearts that could never be reclaimed. In America, survival took on a new meaning. No longer threatened by bombs, he faced poverty, isolation, and the struggle of growing up between two worlds.
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An American Odyssey
- Narrated by: Patrick Kelly Shannon
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 12-06-26
- Language: English
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Fallen Astronauts
- Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon
- By: Colin Burgess, Kate Doolan
- Narrated by: Mark Sando
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Near the end of the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott and fellow moonwalker James Irwin conducted a secret ceremony unsanctioned by NASA: they placed on the lunar soil a small tin figurine called The Fallen Astronaut, along with a plaque bearing a list of names. By telling the stories of those sixteen astronauts and cosmonauts who died in the quest to reach the moon between 1962 and 1972, this book enriches the saga of humankind's greatest scientific undertaking, Project Apollo, and conveys the human cost of the space race.
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What a great insight
- By Brian Russell on 16-10-21
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Fallen Astronauts
- Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon
- Narrated by: Mark Sando
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 28-07-17
- Language: English
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The Traitor's Daughter
- Captured by the Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, My Mother's Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past
- By: Roxana Spicer
- Narrated by: Roxana Spicer
- Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
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INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER The masterful narration of a daughter's decades-long quest to understand her extraordinary mother, who was born in Lenin's Soviet Union, served as a combat soldier in the Red Army, and endured three years of Nazi captivity—but never revealed her darkest secrets. As...
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The Traitor's Daughter
- Captured by the Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, My Mother's Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past
- Narrated by: Roxana Spicer
- Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 27-08-24
- Language: English
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The Hundred-Year Walk
- An Armenian Odyssey
- By: Dawn Anahid MacKeen
- Narrated by: Neil Shah, Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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In the heart of the Ottoman Empire as World War I rages, Stepan Miskjian's world becomes undone. He is separated from his family as they are swept up in the government's mass deportation of Armenians into internment camps. Gradually realizing the unthinkable - that they are all being driven to their deaths - he fights, through starvation and thirst, not to lose hope.
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- By r on 19-04-17
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The Hundred-Year Walk
- An Armenian Odyssey
- Narrated by: Neil Shah, Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 08-03-16
- Language: English
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A Refusenik's Odyssey
- By: Lina Levit Haber, Glenn Schwarcz
- Narrated by: Maria McCann
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of a fervent atheistic communist woman in Moscow who was denied entrance to medical school because she was Jewish. She applied to leave Russia and was denied, thus becoming a Refusenik. It describes her two-year tortuous struggle to leave, her humorous adjustment to American society, and her challenging journey to become a physician and learn what it meant to be Jewish. Her historian husband interweaves her life with the history of Soviet Russia and the Cold War period, including the fail of the Soviet Union.
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A Refusenik's Odyssey
- Narrated by: Maria McCann
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 03-03-26
- Language: English
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The Lost Gutenberg
- The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
- By: Margaret Leslie Davis
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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“A lively tale of historical innovation, the thrill of the bibliophile’s hunt, greed and betrayal.” – The New York Times Book Review "An addictive and engaging look at the ‘competitive, catty and slightly angst-ridden’ heart of the world of book collecting.” - The Houston Chronicle...
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The Lost Gutenberg
- The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 19-03-19
- Language: English
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Odysseus
- A Life
- By: Charles Rowan Beye
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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From an acclaimed classicist comes a witty, unusual, and fascinating "biography" of Homer's fictional Bronze Age hero, Odysseus. In this entertaining book, Charles Beye fills out the story of this extraordinary figure while at the same time portraying Odysseus' evolution through the course of a strange and adventuresome life, at times so remote, at times so immediate in the contemporary perspective.
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A really entertaining listen!
- By Asmodeous on 02-03-17
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Odysseus
- A Life
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 26-05-04
- Language: English
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Fortune Favors the Bold
- A Woman’s Odyssey through a Turbulent Century
- By: Theodore Modis
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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It is early 20th-century Greece. Theodosia, a teenage girl and her younger sister, lose their parents in Constantinople and are thrown into a massive population exchange between Greece and Turkey. They arrive at a refugee camp in Northern Greece, where their choice is to perish or to use the resources at hand in order to survive. Despite all the difficulties they encounter, the sisters decide not to give up, and fight for a better life. Theodosia's story carries on throughout a century and is peppered with horrific events, likable characters, and a great love story.
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Fortune Favors the Bold
- A Woman’s Odyssey through a Turbulent Century
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 26-11-19
- Language: English
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By the Rivers of Water
- A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey
- By: Erskine Clarke
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
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In early November 1834, an aristocratic young couple from Savannah and South Carolina sailed from New York and began a seventeen-year odyssey in West Africa. Leighton and Jane Wilson sailed along what was for them an exotic coastline, visited cities and villages, and sometimes ventured up great rivers and followed ancient paths.
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By the Rivers of Water
- A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 08-10-13
- Language: English
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